Lopinot St. Clair County Associate Judge Vincent Lopinot on Aug. 24 granted 22 banks until Sept. 7 to respond to a lawsuit over the recording of mortgages.
St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly says that a shadow mortgage recording system developed by several large participants in the mortgage industry deprives the public of accurate information on property ownership.
Kelly St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly's office filed a lawsuit Monday against 22 banks, accusing them of engaging in fraud and deception by evading requirements to file documents with the county's recorder of deeds when home loans were bought and sold by lending institutions.
Hylla Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla on May 4 set a case management conference for May 30 in a 2009 case about a man's claim that a Wells Fargo employee struck him after failing to remain stopped at a traffic control device.
Schroeder Madison County Associate Judge Thomas Chapman must decide whether former Circuit Judge Daniel Stack signed contradictory orders a week before he retired.
Threlkeld Wells Fargo and Fifth Third banks call on Madison County Associate Judge Thomas Chapman to resolve contradictions they see between two orders that retired circuit judge Daniel Stack signed when he certified a class action against them.
Stack Former Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack put the action back into class actions on his way out, certifying three in a single day for three teams of lawyers.